More JavaScript? Sure, why not. I mean, its only the second week.
Yesterday we covered simple alert-type boxes. These are very straightforward to create and not too difficult to customize. I got to show off my Choose Your Own Adventure game, built almost entirely from three JS functions (alert, confirm and prompt).
Today we started getting into more substantial things. For loops, if/else and whatever other things we wanted to use for our homework. For me, that meant digging up some regex too. When I was self-studying at Freecodecamp, regex was one of the coolest things I had no idea how to use. It made sense conceptually, and the syntax for some things was very straighforward for me even then. But complex problems were way too hard to tackle even with such a useful tool. Today we were given some simple problems to solve with JS. Things like finding the largest number in an array, or putting two variables together into a single variable. Things that are not too hard with vanilla JS, but made ridiculously easy with regex. That was a nice feeling!
No class on Wednesday, so I get to finish up my homework tomorrow. Even though its not July 4th yet people are shooting off illegal fireworks in my neighborhood. And just like last year they will probably shoot them every night until next week. I've been pretty lucky that they don't shoot them off very late (after 11pm). But listening to fireworks all week is as ridiculous as leaving your Christmas lights up for months after the holidays are finished. You missed your window to celebrate...now you are just being obnoxious.
An odd thing I noticed today. I stayed behind at class and ended up sitting in on the Network certification class that comes in after I usually leave. Its a pretty large class. Maybe about 20 people (for comparison my Front-End class is only 6 people total). The guy/girl split is fairly standard, with only 4 girls in the class. But only one girl was sitting up front and the other three were in the back row. Not chatting with each other, just in the back. There were seats available up front or in the middle. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, since the big trend these days is trying to get more women interested in STEM. Or maybe I'm just focusing on the wrong thing; that it doesn't matter where they sit, its just important that they are going to class in the first place.
Enough worrying about other people in a completely different class. I have to figure out how to chop up these arrays.
